Increasingly the importance of Indigenous participation is acknowledged as central to effective biodiversity conservation. Traditional management emphasizes the importance of a holistic, integrated approach to safeguard species and ecological communities of cultural significance. This is discordant with many instruments for biodiversity conservation. Indigenous Australians have consistently lobbied for domestic laws to be amended to establish comanagement as the preferred approach to managing significant species and ecological communities – an approach that aligns with international obligations such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We describe amendments to Australia's biodiversity legislation and the use of biocultural indicators that would support Traditional management of Culturally Significant Entities (species and ecological communities), and in turn, assist Australia to effectively conserve biodiversity and meet international obligations. The ongoing challenge will be in empowering Indigenous peoples and their governance structures to implement enduring change.

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承认具有重要文化意义的物种和土著主导的管理是履行国际生物多样性义务的关键

土著参与的重要性越来越被认为是有效保护生物多样性的核心。传统管理强调采用全面、综合的方法来保护具有文化意义的物种和生态群落的重要性。这与许多保护生物多样性的文书不一致。土著澳大利亚人一直在游说修改国内法，将共同管理作为管理重要物种和生态社区的首选方法——这种方法符合《生物多样性公约》和《联合国土著人民权利宣言》等国际义务人们。我们描述了澳大利亚的修正案 生物多样性立法和生物文化指标的使用将支持具有重要文化意义的实体（物种和生态群落）的传统管理，进而帮助澳大利亚有效保护生物多样性并履行国际义务。持续的挑战将是赋予原住民及其治理结构实施持久变革的权力。